Clean Air Act

The Protect Our Winters coalition of skiers and snowboarders, including two-time Olympic snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, joined The Wilderness Society and other environmental groups to call on Congress and the Administration to help curb climate-change causing carbon emissions that are threatening

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Easy-bake ovens have been a childhood staple for generations (even landing in the National Toy Hall of Fame). But with the vital organs of the classic Easy-Bake (100-watt incandescent bulbs that waste so much energy as heat that they can bake cookies) disappearing from shelves next year, it looked like Easy-Bake ovens had baked their last miniature goodies.

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In a letter to Congress, The Wilderness Society's Vice President for Public Policy, Melanie Beller asks Members and Senators to send a message to the EPA thanking them for doing all they can do to protect our public health.

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The Wilderness Society President William H. Meadows issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from using good science to protect public health from dangerous pollutants.

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Today a bipartisan coalition of 24 organizations asked the Congress "in the spirit of the season" to give thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the nation's principal environmental health agency which has been targeted recently by Members who wish to prevent the implementation of regulations designed to save lives, prevent asthma, reduce pollution and other emissions found to be harmful to public health.

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Today, in a decision based on a careful review of scientific evidence, the Environmental Protection Agency found that greenhouse gases endanger the public health and welfare under the Clean Air Act. This finding was expected, but long overdue because the previous administration respected neither the science nor the law. The consequence of this finding is that EPA will now begin the task of reducing these emissions through the permitting process provided by the Clean Air Act.

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The new majority of the House continues to amass a remarkable record of science denialism. On March 15th (the ides of March) the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a political body of (mostly) non-scientists, voted to repeal the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions can be a danger to the public health.